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Previous to VS2008, there are no support for Visual Studio to automatically generate a public class (and properties) for a RESX file. You can use resgen.exe but that is manual process. (Well, you can custom your project file to do this automatically but it is not neutral to me) More details is described here

VS2008 supports a custom tool named PublicResXFileCodeGenerator that you can use. Below is how to use it